Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Analysis. A Research Programme for the Analysis of Social Relationships of Knowledge and Politics of Knowledge

Authors

  • Reiner Keller Universität Augsburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-11.3.1494

Keywords:

discourse, sociology of knowledge, interpretation, actor, practice, Foucault, Berger & Luckmann, dispositif, grounded theory, frame, politics of knowledge

Abstract

In this paper I discuss the theoretical basis of a sociology of knowledge approach to discourse (Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse, WDA), and its methodological implications and transpositions. WDA's emphasis is on the analysis of societal knowledge conditions and politics of knowledge. This specific "translation" between sociology of knowledge and the Foucauldian (type of) discourse analysis in recent times gains in influence not only in sociology but in history, pedagogics/educational science, linguistics, political science, studies of religion, as well as criminology. WDA translates FOUCAULT's concepts and theoretical considerations into a social constructivist frame of reference provided by BERGER and LUCKMANN's sociology of knowledge, thereby linking it to the methodological pool provided by the interpretative paradigm. Unlike most linguistic approaches to discourse, the analysis of knowledge FOUCAULT aimed at comes to the fore, thereby pulling "discursive struggles" into the focus of social scientific discourse analysis. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs100352

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Author Biography

Reiner Keller, Universität Augsburg

Reiner KELLER es catedrático de sociología en la Universidad Coblenza-Landau. Campos de trabajo: investigación de discurso, sociología del conocimiento y de la cultura, teoría social, investigación social cualitativa, entre otros.

Published

2010-08-24

How to Cite

Keller, R. (2010). Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Analysis. A Research Programme for the Analysis of Social Relationships of Knowledge and Politics of Knowledge. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-11.3.1494

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